Elzburg Reviews

Tokyo Ghoul: Void by Sui Ishida My rating: 4 of 5 stars Compared to the first Tokyo Ghoul light-novel-spin-off-short-story-collection , Void was… Boring. All of the stories were all pretty consistently mellow. There were parts of different stories that had action, but it was definitely an overall low-key collection. This doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing, but I did find myself enjoying this book less than I enjoyed the first one. The first story is told from Kotaro Amon’s perspective, and I was really excited to read a story about him and the CCG. Sadly it ended up not really being much of a compelling read due to it being quite slow. This was the longest story of the collection, but I feel like it could have been condensed to move the story along faster. Though I do understand if it was written in this way on purpose in order to create tension or suspense, since I'm pretty sure this story was meant to read as some type of mystery thril...

黒子のバスケ ―Replace― [Kuroko no Basuke -Replace-] by Tadatoshi Fujimaki My rating: 2 of 5 stars Okay so first of all: Prior to reading this I did not know that this is not a novel, but in fact a collection of five short stories (written in prose). So that caught me by surprise, but now you've been warned. I'll review each story separately here. ("Game" in the titles mean chapters.) The First Game: Teikou Middle School's Eventful After School ★★★★★ I very thoroughly enjoyed this first chapter. It's about the Generation of Miracles way back in their middle school days when they had yet to earn that title for themselves. This is what I thought the whole book was going to be about, but unfortunately that was not the case. Nonetheless it is always so great to see the GoM in their sweet innocent days. It follows one of the kids' afternoons from the perspective of Momoi. It was a very nice read from my perspective as a Momoi x Ku...

Tokyo Ghoul: Days by Sui Ishida My rating: 5 of 5 stars Due to my prior foray into the world of spin-off light novels not being a very enjoyable one, I was extremely wary going into this. Luckily, I didn’t have to be! This book was absolutely fantastic. I think what didn't work for me with Kuroko no Basuke -Replace- (the previous light novel I’ve read) was that it seemed a bit pointless. It might as well have been a collection of five fanfictions, because they didn't really actually add anything to the existing story, provide new insight, or anything like that. That definitely compromised my enjoyment of it, but it was even worse because it wasn't like the stories were at least also entertaining or enjoyable on their own (with the exception being the first story). Days on the other hand provided insight into the lives of the other characters that we weren't able to see due to the main story focusing on Kaneki and his troubles so muc...